🇬🇧 Colin Turkington

Colin Turkington is an established professional racing driver with a 5,185 Racer Rating, placing him in the professional band; this means he is a capable front-runner at national championship level or among the sharp end of strong feeder series, beating semi-professionals comfortably. He holds the FIA Gold categorisation in endurance racing, denoting a full professional in GT and sportscar competition. His career is defined by sustained success in the British Touring Car Championship across eleven seasons from 2015 to 2024, where he scored 40 wins and 100 podiums from 295 starts for Team BMW, finishing fifth or better in four seasons and claiming the 2018 championship outright.[1]

Turkington's record against the field reveals a driver consistently competitive among BTCC front-runners but operating at a marginal level relative to the very strongest. He finished ahead of Tom Ingram, a Gold-graded professional and two-time BTCC champion, in 137 of 252 shared races, and ahead of Ash Sutton, a four-time BTCC champion, in 109 of 231 shared races. Against other high-calibre rivals including Josh Cook, Adam Morgan, Aiden Moffat and Jake Hill (2024 BTCC champion), his record shows a typical spread: ahead of Cook 150 times in 244 encounters, ahead of Morgan 166 times in 239, and ahead of Hill 125 times in 211. These margins reflect a driver who regularly wins head-to-head contests but does not dominate the field; his average finishing position across all starts is 6.5, and his final BTCC campaign in 2024 yielded 5 wins and 11 podiums in 30 rounds but only fourth overall.[2]

In 2026, Turkington has moved into the British GT Championship, making three starts so far for WSR FlexiFly in an apparent transition away from touring cars. The recent press coverage describes this as an unfamiliar undertaking for a driver long established in single-make, circuit-racing competition, suggesting the switch represents a genuine departure from his wheelhouse rather than a natural progression.